Scientists could have caught their first glimpse of the Higgs boson, the curious particle thought to underpin the subatomic workings of nature.

Hundreds of physicists crowded into a seminar room at Cern, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva on Tuesday, breaking into applauseas Fabiola Gianotti and Guido Tonelli,
who lead separate teams at Cern's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), revealed
evidence for the particle amid the debris of hundreds of trillions of
proton collisions at the machine.